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No. 525,355. Patented May 23, I899.

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(Application filed Aug. 3, 1898.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE XV. BEAM, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUOHER & GIBBS PLOlV COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,355, dated May 23, 1899.

Application filed August 8, 1898. Serial No. 687,627. (No model.)

To rtZZ 2072,0772 it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BEAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plows, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to plows particularly adapted for use in vineyards, hopyards,truckfarms, and similar places; and its object is to provide a plow which may be used within the minimum distance from the vine to throw the earth either to or from the same and yet permit the horse and plowinan to walk a safe distance from the vines.

To this end the invention includes a plow having a beam and a handle or handles independently adjustable and adapted to be set to either side thereof, as the particular conditions may require.

It also includes details of construction, as will be hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing both the handles and the beam set to one side of the plow-standard. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a modification.

In plowing in vineyards and the like it is desirable to have the furrow cut close to the vine; but in the use of plows having rigid beams and handles this is not possible, because of the injury done to the vines by the horse walking or trampling thereon. To overcome this, I have devised a beam and a handle or handles independently adjustable in relation to the standard and each other.

In the accompanying drawings the plow is shown at 1, to which an arm 2 is rigidly secured, this arm terminating at its upper end in a segmental lateral extension 3, having a slot 4: therein. The are of the slot is struck from the pivot 5 as a center, this pivot extending through the arm 2 and connecting the brackets 17 and 5thereto by nut 19. The bracket 5 has side flanges and a diverging upper portion adapted to receive the ends of the handles 7, which are held thereto by means of a base-plate 9, which engages the under and inner sides of the same and is clamped in place by a bolt and nut 11. A pin 12 projects from the face of the bracket 5 through the slot 4 and is surmounted by a butterfly-nut 13, which binds a washer 15 loose on said pin against the edge of the slot and retains the bracket 5 in adjusted position.

An angular bracket 17 secures the rear end of the plow-beam to the arm 2. The lower member of this bracket has depending side flanges which embrace the edges of the plate 2, and a slot 18 in the bracket allows adj ustment up or down. The upper member of bracket 17 is of segmental form and extends at an angle to the lower part to furnish a rest for the rear of the plow-beam. A slot 20 extends the length of the same in an are con centric to the pivot of the beam, and a bolt 21 extends vertically through the rear end of the beam a and slot 20, while a butterfly-nut 22 on the end of the bolt 21 is adapted to be screwed down upon a plate 23'upon the face of the beam to bind the parts together. The plow-beam is pivotallysupported,intermediate of its length upon the standard a. When it is desired to throw the earth away from the vines, the beam and handles are set as illustrated in Fig. 1, the outer ends of the beam and the handles being adjusted away from the landside of the plow. To throw the earth toward the vines, the beam and handles would be shifted to the other side or toward the landside of the plow, thus permitting both the horses and plowman to walk upon the unplowed ground.

A single handle may be substituted for the double handles, as shown in Fig. 5. In this form the bracket 5 is changed from the divergent form used for two handles to a simple flanged plate, the lower end of which is fitted to the socket formed by the flanges of the arm 2, the pivot 5 passing through the opening (Z and the pin 12 through the openmg e.

and an adjustable connection between the upper end of the arm 2 and the handle-bracket substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE V. REAM.

Witnesses:

W. H. CAVNAHL J 0s. H. MILLER. 

